Victoria Shaffer, Ph.D.

	Title: Assistant Professor of Psychology Director: Decision Making Research Lab Education: West Chester University, B.A., 2000 Ohio State University, M.A., 2002 Ohio State University, Ph.D., 2005 Current Instructor: Psychological Statistics, Biological Foundations of Psychology, Judgment and Decision Making Research Interests: Judgment & Decision Making, Methodology
Vita (PDF) My research interests focus on issues of human judgment and decision making, particularly in the field of medicine. Current research projects involve examining the impact of medical diagnostic decision aids on patient satisfaction, medical malpractice verdicts and physician judgment.

Submitted papers:

Medow, M. A., Arkes, H. R., & Shaffer, V. A. (under review). Specialists or decision aids: Who/what is attended to more? Submitted to Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Merkle, E. C. & Shaffer, V. A. (under review). Binary recursive partitioning as an alternative to regression in Psychology. Submitted to British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology .

In press:

Shaffer, V. A. & Arkes, H. R. (in press). Preference reversals in the evaluation of cash versus noncash incentives. Journal of Economic Psychology. (PDF)
 

Selected Publications:

Shaffer, V. A. & Hulsey, L. (2009). Are patient decision aids effective? Insight from revisiting the debate between correspondence and coherence theories of judgment. Judgment and Decision Making, 4 (2), 141-146. (PDF)

Arkes, H. R., Shaffer, V. A. & Medow, M. A. (2008). The influence of a physician’s use of a diagnostic decision aid on the malpractice verdicts of mock jurors. Medical Decision Making, 28 (2), 201-208. (PDF)

Shaffer, V. A. & Shaffer, L. S. (2007). The use of recipe knowledge in medicine. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 2 (7), 73-80. (PDF)

Jeffrey, S. A. & Shaffer, V. A. (2007). The motivational properties of tangible incentives. Compensation and Benefits Review, 39, 44-50. (PDF)

Arkes , H. R., Shaffer, V. A., & Medow, M. A. (2007). Patients derogate physicians who use a computer-assisted diagnostic aid. Medical Decision Making, 27 (2), 189-202. (PDF)

Arkes, H. R., Shaffer, V. A., & Dawes, R. (2006). Comparing holistic and disaggregated ratings in the evaluation of scientific presentations. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 19, 429-439. (PDF)

Arkes, H. R. & Shaffer, V.A. (2006). Should we use decision aids or gut feelings? In C. Engel and G. Gigerenzer (Eds.), Heuristics and the law. Dahlem Workshop Report 94. (pp. 411-424) Cambridge, M.A.: The MIT Press. (PDF)